June 13, 2006
Nintendo’s Big Brain Academy Is the Most Fun
You Can Have With Your Brain
Quick — which weighs more, three snails or a
ladybug? How much is seven plus nine plus four? And was that sequence of sounds
you just heard baby-baby-girl or girl-baby-baby? Nintendo’s new Big Brain
Academy(TM) challenges players with a series of wacky mental tests in areas such
as thinking, memorization, computation, analysis and identification. Players
complete as many of these tasks as possible in 60 seconds as the difficulty
level rises. Big Brain Academy, the second installment in Nintendo’s wildly
popular brain-training series, launched June 5 exclusively for Nintendo DS(TM).
In Big Brain Academy, users encounter a series of
15 different tests that involve use of the Nintendo DS touch screen. Activities
include counting the number of blocks in a stack, matching pairs of colorful
panels and deducing which object on a set of scales weighs the most. Big Brain
Academy then rates users’ performances by giving them a letter grade, suggesting
a career option based on their areas of strength and assigning their in-game
brain a weight.
The better the score, the heavier the brain.
Brain training has become a worldwide phenomenon. The three software titles in
the Nintendo DS series have sold more than 6 million copies in Japan. The first
brain-training software, Brain Age(TM): Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, went
on sale in the United States on April 17. Up to eight DS owners can compete
wirelessly in multiplayer games, even if only one person has a game card. It
will be sold under Nintendo’s new Touch Generations brand, which encompasses
titles that anyone can pick up and play, even with little or no experience with
playing video games. It represents Nintendo’s ongoing commitment to expand
the world of video games to new audiences. Big Brain Academy is Rated E for
Everyone.
For more information about Big Brain Academy,
please visit
BigBrainAcademy.com.
